The Tsar's viceroys : Russian provincial governors in the last years of the empire /
Wrestling with a would-be assassin, inspecting the toilets in a rural prison, responding to a challenge from his mistress's enraged husband--all these matters could be part of a Russian provincial governor's day. More often, he was entangled in administrative routine, troubled by a steady...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Fifty Good Governors
- It Comes with the Territory
- Viceroy and Flunky
- Prisoner of the Clerks
- The Issue of Their Charm
- Persuaders-in-Chief
- Instruments of Force
- Their Compulsory Game
- Conclusions.